Court Continues to Reject Repetitive Constitutional Challenges to IRE Process

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected yet another constitutional challenge to the state's new impairment rating evaluation process. Pamela Barrett Walker worked for the City of Philadelphia. She suffered injuries at work in 2004 and began collecting temporary total disability benefits. Walker underwent an impairment rating evaluation by Dr. Lynn Yang in 2022. Yang opined that Walker had an impairment rating of 15%, which fell below the threshold that allows the city to request a modification of her status from totally to partially disabled. A workers’ compensation ...